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Snap unveils Specs AR glasses after more than a decade of development - with Specs Intelligence

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Snap unveiled its latest version of Specs AR glasses, which incorporate both augmented reality and AI, and are set to ship in the fall.

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Evan Spiegel, CEO of Snapchat maker Snap , unveiled the latest version of Specs glasses that use both augmented reality (AR) and AI. The glasses also come with Specs Intelligence. The Specs product is part of an intelligent system that lives across your Mac and your iPhone. Today, you can join the waitlist for early access on the Specs website and try a preview of Specs Intelligence now in the Specs iOS app. Specs are shipping this fall. In his keynote opening, Spiegel took a jab at the usual AI-related product launches that we hear about these days. "I will say it's an interesting time to be launching a new computer because things in tech are pretty weird right now," Spiegel said. "We're being told that AI will take our jobs, that virtual worlds will replace the real one. Well, no, thank you. We do not accept that future. Making people irrelevant is not progress, and computers should make us more important, not less. So our bet is on you, on your imagination, on your creativity, on what you can build, and on what we can do together, because technology should add to your life, not cut you out of it." Spiegel said that the team at Snap set out more than a decade ago to rebuild the computer from the ground up around what's most important - people - and that gave birth to Specs and the vision for making computing more human. Naturally, one of his first live demos didn't work...

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  • general technology
  • future tech
  • mobile

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Sep 16, 2026
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